Drones Ruin Everything

Watch This Drone Crash-Land at a U.S. Open Tennis Match

It was bound to happen: a drone crash-landed in the middle of a women’s match at the U.S. Open on Thursday night, proving that New York City’s last sacred communal ground, where everyone drinks cocktails, ping-pongs their gaze to follow tennis balls, and politely cheers only between points, has been defiled forever.

According to ESPN, the drone was allegedly piloted by a Brooklyn teacher who was arrested and charged with “reckless endangerment and operating a drone in a New York City public park outside of prescribed area.” The players, Flavia Pennetta and Monica Niculescu, were slightly rattled—Pennetta said that she thought the noise from the drone was from a bomb—but kept the match going afterward.